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BfK No. 74 - May 1992

Cover Story
This month's cover features an illustration by Victor Ambrus (see Authorgraph) for Gulliver's Travels, retold by James Riordan. It is published in July by Oxford University Press (0 19 279897 9, £9.95) and we are grateful to OUP for their help in using this picture

BfK No. 74 Articles

Editorial – May 1992

News and comment from the Editor.

Children Writing Their Own Books

Paul Johnson on Children's Book Art.

Wordless Picture Books

Jeff Hynds on Books Without Words and Philippe Dupasquier on Writing Pictures.

Authorgraph No.74: Victor Ambrus

Victor Ambrus interviewed by Julia Eccleshare.

May We Recommend... Philip Pullman

Geoff Fox looks at the novels of Philip Pullman.

Reader Makers

A round-up of recent Picture Books by Trevor Dickinson.

BfK Briefing – May 1992

News * Awards * Events

Awards: Mother Goose and The Guardian

Charlotte Voake and Stephanie Nettell report.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 74

  • Under 5s
  • Ages 5-8
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 10-14
  • Ages 14+

Under 5s

  • The Little Dog Laughed and other nursery rhymes

    Lucy Cousins
  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

    Tony Bradman
  • The Quilt

    Ann Jonas
  • Morag and the Lamb

    Joan Lingard
  • Little Rabbit Foo Foo

    Michael Rosen
  • My Hippopotamus is on our Caravan Roof Getting Sunburnt

    Hazel Edwards
  • Little Penguin

    Patrick Benson
  • A Boy Wants a Dinosaur

    Hiawyn Oram
  • The Grumpalump

    Sarah Hayes

Ages 5-8

  • Aluminium ¦ Paper

    Sally Morgan
    Pauline Lalor
  • Two Travellers

    Christopher Manson
  • Tom Thumb

    Richard Jesse Watson
  • Just Jack

    Mary Hoffman
  • The Dinosaur Diner and Other Poems

    Paul Sidey
  • A Second Golden Treasury of Animal Verse

  • Egg Poems ¦ Ghost Poems ¦ Snow Poems ¦ Sea Poems

  • Tilly's Rescue

    Faith Jaques
  • Jamaica Tag-Along

    Juanita Havill
  • Our House

    Emma Rogers
    Paul Rogers
  • Somewhere in Africa

    Ingrid Mennen
    Niki Daly
  • Mrs Goat and her Seven Little Kids

    Tony Ross

Ages 8-10

  • Looking after your hamster ¦ Looking after your rabbits

    Helen Piers
  • Graphs and Charts ¦ Measurement ¦ Multiplying and Dividing ¦ Shape

    Karen Bryant-Mole
  • Land Ahoy! The story of Christopher Columbus

    Scoular Anderson
  • Only Miranda

    Tessa Krailing
  • Imran's Secret

    Nadya Smith
  • The Real Life Dinosaur and other stories

    Kenneth Lillington
  • Twin and Supertwin

    Gillian Cross
  • Tim Kipper

    Robert Swindells
  • The Devil in the Dustbin

    Indi Rana
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses

    Brothers Grimm
  • Alphabet Cousins

    Catherine Robinson
  • The Model Village

    Nicholas Fisk

Ages 10-14

  • Understanding Modern Art

    Monica Bohm-Duchen
  • Transport in Europe

    Mark Smalley
  • The Aliens are Coming: plant life and the Greenhouse effect

    Phil Gates
  • The Young Vegetarian's A-Z

    Debra Shipley
  • Kickback

    Michael Hardcastle
  • AK

    Peter Dickinson
  • Just Like the Movies

    Patricia Windsor
  • A Can of Worms and other stories

    Jan Mark
  • The Kingdom by the Sea

    Robert Westall
  • Mythical Creatures

    Bert Kitchen
  • Make Like a Tree and Leave

    Paula Danziger
  • The Mink War

    Gene Kemp
  • The Lake at the End of the World

    Caroline Macdonald
  • Taking the Ferry Home

    Pam Conrad
  • Dear Mum, You're Ruining My Life

    Jean Van Leeuwen
  • Change the Locks

    Simon French
  • Hero

    Allan Baillie
  • Starchild and Witchfire

    David Henshall
  • Waiting for Anya

    Michael Morpurgo
  • Not Just Jemima

    Sally Christie

Ages 14+

  • Digital Vampires

    Laurence Staig
  • Point Horror: The Boyfriend

    R L Stine
  • The Game

    Enid Richemont
  • Wolf

    Gillian Cross
  • The Duplicate ¦ Strange Attractors

    William Sleator
  • The Maple Moon

    Patrick Raymond
  • Alex in Winter

    Tessa Duder
  • On Foreign Ground

    Eduardo Quiroga
  • The Flither Pickers

    Theresa Tomlinson
  • The Voyage of the Frog

    Gary Paulsen
  • Brother Night

    Victor Kelleher
  • Daz 4 Zoe

    Robert Swindells
  • Bad Penny

    Allan Frewin Jones
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